The “Monday Night Football” broadcast of the New Orleans Saints-Atlanta Falcons game delivered a massive combined 64.9 overnight rating in New Orleans – the best local rating for a “MNF” game this season – according to numbers distributed Tuesday morning by ESPN.

Michael Democker/The Times-PicayuneAnthony Hargrove and the fans are feeling perfect after the game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons at the Louisiana Superdome on Monday, November 2, 2009.The game was carried locally on ESPN (24.7 rating) and NBC affiliate WDSU-Channel 6 (39.3 rating). The Nielsen overnights don’t measure out-of-home viewing. A rating point in New Orleans represents about 6,340 homes.

Nationally, the “Monday Night Football” broadcast got an 8.5 rating in large markets.

In Atlanta, the game had a combined 24.4 rating, with each rating point representing 1 percent of total area homes, on ESPN and the local CBS affiliate.